Portal:Current events/2016 May 31

Current events of May 31, 2016 (2016-05-31) (Tuesday)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 17 army personnel are killed in a fire in an ammunitions depot in India. (NY Times) (NDTV)

International relations

• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • North Korea attempts again to launch a BM25 Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of striking South Korea or Japan but is unsuccessful. (The Guardian)
• A recent Global Slavery Index report estimates the number of people born into servitude, trafficked for sex work, in debt bondage, or forced labour to be 45.8 million. India is reported to have the highest number at an estimated 18.4 million slaves, and North Korea the highest ratio, 4.4 precent of its population. (Reuters) (Bloomberg)